Does anyone else find him a shallow, irritaing, sycophantic moron on his current talk show? I don't get it, he was so funny and full of promise on The Last Resort in the eighties. Why is he SO obsessed with what his guests look like, and wastes half the interview going on about it?
Yes; and the words you used also accurately describe Michael Parkinson in his chat-show, so perhaps those qualities are pre-requisites for this kind of programme.
I have never found him anything other than a tit with no dress sense, an inflated ego and who thinks it somehow cool to substitute the letter r with w (it is not a speech impediment, he does it on purpose). His feigned cockney accent, feigned speech impediment and silly dress sense are clearly ways for a talentless person to get attention.
Hmmm But, Harold, you forgot Smug, awwogant, pweening, self-obsessed, cwude, sarcastic and over-bearing. Worst of all, he's not actually a fraction as intelligent as he likes to think he is...!!